NHL technically opened with the global series games in Prague where the Devils swept the Sabres in two games.
but today begins the season in North America
triple header today:
Seattle hosts St Louis at 4:30 ET (a rare weekday matinee I guess)
then
Florida raises their championship banner vs Boston 7pm ET (I guess unless the storm messes with this one)
then
Utah hosts Chicago at 10pm ET.
Seattle? Utah? WTF? 5 years ago I would have thought this was an EA Sports game.
I figure we could use this thread to talk hockey, make predictions, trash talk/chirp each other, whatever.
4 out of 12 teams yesterday scored 6 or more. One lost. lol.
10/9: 6-0, 6-0, 6-5, 8-4
10/10: 6-4, 6-3, 5-4, 5-4
10/11: none
10/12: 6-5, 6-3, 6-4, 5-4
10/13: none
10/14: 8-7, 6-2, 6-3
Just seems like a lot, particularly to see two teams scoring 8 in the first week of the season. You have to go back to the '80s to find anything like that, I'd bet.
Goalie goal in MIN as Gustafsson ices the game.
Ovi joins the 700/700 club as Caps win
Devils upended by CAR
Kraken put up a TD on the preds, with 4 3rd period goals.
Oilers off the schneid, Flames remain unbeaten, Stars win in a SO.
Just two unbeaten teams (regulation) in the East. TBL and NYR.
In the West, DAL, WIN and CAL remain perfect on the season, while LAK and MIN haven't lost in regulation.
Malkin 500 goals
Crosby the 10th player in NHL history with 1600 points. the last one to reach the milestone was Jagr (2011). Crosby 5th fastest to reach the milestone behind only Gretzky, Lemieux, Dionne and Jagr. Gretzky did it in a ridiculous 667 games. Gretzky averaged around a 2.4 ppg pace for his first 8 years. lol.
Crosby had the lone assist on Malkin's 500th
and
Malkin had the lone assist on Crosby's 500th (Feb 2022)
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I work hard every day and people probably don't understand that sometimes it's not easy for me. But, it's a great story, Sid pass to me… it's amazing, I love it. Again, congrats to myself
Adding euros to the NHL made the game so much better in every way.
youngest team, oldest team, tallest team, shortest team, heaviest team, lightest team, nationality breakouts, etc.
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MTL vs LAK
OTT vs NJD
STL vs NYI
DET vs NYR
Igor is better, but not that much better and Otter is younger
Heiskanen
Oettinger
Robertson
light slate today.
just 3 games.
PIT vs CAR the closes to teams anyone on here cares about.
All 32 teams *will* be in action on Tuesday 10/22.
highlights for today:
TOR vs NYR - an early season match up of contenders. Woll should be back soon, not sure if he plays today though.
NJD vs WAS
NYI vs MTL
UTA vs BOS
DAL vs EDM (no one on here likes either team, but should be a battle of western conference contenders)
I will leave this post with Marc-Andre Fleury as McLovin from Superbad for Halloween. lol - he nailed this.
Heiskanen
Oettinger
Robertson
Nill has been GM since 2013, usually future GMs harvest those gains.
I remember wanting the Rangers to fire Sather and hire Nill during the 04 lockout lol.
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2017 draft class is proving to be one of the best in recent memory.
Heiskanen
Oettinger
Robertson
Nill has been GM since 2013, usually future GMs harvest those gains.
I remember wanting the Rangers to fire Sather and hire Nill during the 04 lockout lol.
Not just a one-draft wonder either.
Like the Rangers, the Stars have been contenders for a while, so they pick late.
His 2021 draft was awesome too with Wyatt Johnston (one of my favorite young players) and Logan Stankoven (another one of the mighty mite players like a Caufield).
Thomas Harley is a legit to pair D in the making (2019).
Roope Hintz is also one of my favorite players - grit/skill combo (2015 2nd).
I like most of his FA adds too.
Need to win though or he's an "almost got it done" type.
Maybe no Slafkovsky (injured in practice).
Varmy let in a late softie (unless it was tipped which I could not see) to send the game to OT, at which point maybe 1 min in MTL promptly took a high sticking PP (must have been their 3rd or 4th of the game) and wasted most of the OT.
PP MIN were 12 for NYI, 2 for MTL. Even though it didn't hurt them in terms of PP goals, MTL cannot play that undisciplined and expect to be in most games. It wears you out.
MTL did score on their lone PP, in the waning seconds of the 1st to cut the NYI lead to 2-1.
Everything Caufield is shooting now is going in (he was the beneficiary of the Varmy softie too - only thing I could see on that one is maybe his defenseman got in his way - not like a screen but more impeded him from "getting his net" or it was tipped/deflected - but no doubt he'd like that one back. Caufield has 6 goals on the young season.
5-0-0. Beat the Pens today.
Other teams without a regulation loss?
NYR 4-0-1
MIN 3-0-2
CAL 4-0-1
Teams who are winless:
SJS 0-3-2
NSH 0-5-0 (wow)
best goal differentials:
WIN +16 (5 games)
NYR +14 (5 games)
DAL +9 (6 games)
CAL +8 (5 games)
worst goal differentials:
NSH -13 (5 games)
EDM -12 (6 games)
COL -11 (5 games)
SJS -11 (5 games)
Sharks, Avs, Ducks and Kings still to play today, so could change a little